25 Mar
2005
25 Mar
'05
2:03 p.m.
On Fri, 25 Mar 2005, Pete Turnbull wrote:
several decades we've seen hardware get bigger and
faster by several
orders of magnitude, but software hasn't done anything of the sort.
Software HAS gotten bigger.
Software has gotten SLOWER.
"Nobody programs in assembly language anymore, nor ever will again."
- Clancy and Harvey (UC Berkeley)
"If it isn't fast enough, throw hardware at it."
- MICROS~1